blackface, like many forms of racism, is a pleasurable activity for the practitioner. it allows them to relish in mockery and, like traditional minstrelsy, frees them to behave in taboo or transgressive ways, that they can attribute to the racial costumehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1174798801334390788 …
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Replying to @jbouie
I can sort of understand that intellectually but it's very hard for me to grasp emotionally. I just don't see the fun of it. I can understand the appeal of other types of transgressive behavior more readily.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
i dunno, having seen the look of...satisfaction on the face of a white kid saying "nigger," the pleasure-seeking seems intuitive to me
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iirc, antebellum minstrelsy really got going with northern urban whites mocking free blacks that were aspiring to middle class respectability
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but the other thing to consider is some people are just really fucking dumb
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I dunno.I'm pretty stupid but I remember as a kid (maybe 10 or 11) seeing a clip from "The Jazz Singer" and thinking this was bad.
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